Introduction : our images, our selves -- Image and reputation at the turn of the century -- The origins of the right to privacy -- The crisis of the circulating portrait -- Insult and image -- The image society -- The laws of image : libel, privacy, emotional distress -- The freedom to image : Sidis v. The New Yorker -- "An age of images" -- Privacy and the image in postwar America -- Conclusion : the law and personal image in the digital age.